In ISLAM “There is no preference… except through righteousness”The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), during his Last Sermon in Minâ, said: “O people! Your Lord is one Lord, and you all share the same father. There is no preference for Arabs over non-Arabs, nor for non-Arabs over Arabs. Neither is their preference for white people over black people, nor for black people over white people. Preference is only through righteousness.” Then he said: “Have I conveyed the message?” and the people declared that he had. [Musnad Ahmad (22391)]When we study the history of the Muslim peoples, we find that one of the hallmarks of Islamic civilization – where it has historically surpassed all others – is its universality. Islamic civilization realized the greatest level of interracial and interethnic integration that existed in the world. It offered every nationality and ethnic group the chance to participate fully in the development and cultivation of the civilization that they shared.

We can verify this by looking at the great people in Muslim history who represent excellence and achievement in all of the arts, sciences, and vocations that give a civilization its character. We find that Islam’s great thinkers, leaders, artists, and achievers represent every ethnicity and nationality that came into the fold of Islam. We find Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Persians, Berbers, Africans, Indians, and Central Asians all robustly represented.

The reason for this is simple: The religion which united these people into a civilization, though its Prophet was an Arab, is not a religion for the Arabs. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) came with a religion for all humanity. The Qur’ân’s message is universal.

Allah says about his Prophet: “We sent you not except to be a mercy for all peoples.” [Sûrah al-Anbiyâ’: 107]

Allah commands his Messenger: “Say: O people! Surely I am Allah’s Messenger to you all, of Him whose is the kingdom of the heavens and the Earth. There is no God but He.” [Sûrah al-A`râf: 158]

Allah describes the Qur’ân as follows: “It is no less than a message unto all creation.” [Sûrah Yûsuf: 104]

Another reason why Islamic civilization achieved the ideal of universality s because Islam sets forth the principle that righteousness is the basis for the superiority of one person over another. Considerations such as color, race, lineage, and ethnicity simply do not factor in.

Allah declares this unequivocally in the Qur’ân where He says: “O humanity! We created you from a single pair of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes that you may know one other. Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah are the most righteous from among you.” [Sûrah al-Hujurât: 13]

And it was this very principle that the Prophet (peace be upon him) made sure to declare to the people in his Last Sermon to the assembled pilgrims in Minâ: “O people! Your Lord is one Lord, and you all share the same father. There is no preference for Arabs over non-Arabs, nor for non-Arabs over Arabs. Neither is their preference for white people over black people, nor for black people over white people. Preference is only through righteousness.”

Upon saying this, he demanded of them: “Have I conveyed the message?”

Then he heard the people’s voices rise up saying: “You have conveyed it.”

This is why Islam was able to integrate a huge diversity of nations and peoples into one great and vital civilization at a time when the rest of the world had failed to do so.

It is not that others had not tried. Possibly the greatest attempt in the history before Islam was made by Alexander III of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great. Under the tutelage of Aristotle, Alexander strove to mold a universal civilization that would bring together all of the people in his Empire under a shared Hellenistic culture and vision. To do this, he established cities in every province with the name of Alexandria, which would be centers of culture and learning that would be the wellsprings of a single Hellenistic civilization.

He also sought to unite the Greeks and the Persians into a single people through a program of intermarriage. He held a mass marriage of his senior officers to Persian and other noblewomen at Susa, which is located in what is now western Iran. He, himself, married the daughter of the Persian monarch. He actively promoted intermarriage between the peoples of his empire as a policy.

Alas, the dream of Alexander and his mentor Aristotle did not succeed. It evaporated as soon as Alexander died. The states that succeeded his empire were those of a Greek governing class over indigenous people who did not share in the culture, values, and prosperity of the rulers.

The significance of the Islamic achievement can also be compared in light of Western civilization, which was for a very long time dominated by the bane of white supremacy. Western civilization did not regard non-whites as equals and did not afford them to fully participate in that civilization as equals. Even in America, a nation of immigrants where many ethnic and racial groups are strongly represented, and where the ideal of universality would be at its greatest possibility of realization, the days of segregation are not that long past. As of the writing of this article, the country has yet to have a non-white president.

It is Islam that bequeathed the ideal of equality and universality to the civilization that it founded. This is truly one of the greatest achievements of Islam.

Denzel Washington did a fantastic job, however, he'll never be able to truly speak like this man did, all praise is due to Allah for Malcolm X leading me to Islam, assalam alaikum brother Malcolm, may you find everlasting peace.

My Brother, our Brother…..They had to kill Malcolm not because he told the truth about Elijah but the AMERICAN GOVERNMENT paid off Elijah to have him KILLED. Malcolm was taking this NATION to the WORLD COURT, the United Nations on charges of RACISM……So they had to kill him……

I LOVE YOU MALCOLM and many other people LOVE you as well…..I hope to see your aspirations fulfilled one day when AMERICA is brought to answer for its CRIMES!!

Do you see this video is black and white from 50 years ago. This is 2015, MX knows nothing about today. Shut this old thinking down. Now look what we got….. Sharpton and Jackson? Please. THose chumps dont give a damn about black people as a whole. We believe anything and anyone that comes along. Black people need to be productive and stop blaming white folks for everthing. Stand up.

The Nation of Islam aren't really Muslims in any way. It's an interpretation of Islam made my foreigners who failed to understand Islamic theology and molded it to suit their ideological objectives. Any solidarity felt by Sunnis or Shiites with Nation Of Islam Muslims would vanish immediately were they ever in close proximity to one another. Granted, these events transpired prior to the rise of radical Islam, but nevertheless Islam is a doctrinal religion which has never tolerated heresy, and that is precisely what the Nation of Islam is. Usually, heresies spring up around minor doctrinal disputes, but the Nation of Islam has completely reinterpreted the entire religion. Obviously this would never be tolerated in the Muslim world. It may have made sense at the time for political and social reasons, but anyone who considers their self a member of the Nation of Islam in 2015 is a complete fool.

Watching this make's one think "the guy questioning is either dumb as fuck or has his head up his ass although another possibility could be added BOTH" the questions are so fucking double standards for instance "why would you encourage the negro to tool up (ok he said arm themselves but its 2015) as Malcolm answered perfectly its common sense if the oppressed, down trodden, abused are not being protected or treated as his fellow citizens it would be ludicrous not to give those who abuse a taste of their own medicine and that also goes for today these doughnut munching motherfucking cops are shooting black people point blank and lying in the case of the motherfucker tensing and slager to name a few who were caught by being recorded murdering and planting evidence or falsely claiming to have their lifes threatened but think about those who have not been recorded???? We have to give them a taste of their own medicine shoot the bastards cowardly out of view sooner or later they will see IT WORKS BOTH WAYS

A man of virtue. 99% of ppl are rroten to some degree. Malcolm was full of integrity, honor, principles and convictions. He had character. A word hardly ever used these days. And a man of virtue, much like a prince, a king, like Marcus Aurelius.

you assholes mist the whole point in this video!! he proclaimed his nationality as a moor that's why his name was corrected to shabaz EL! that's why he said he fixed his problem personally but his personal problems won't really be fixed until his people problems are fixed too!! pay attention you are not black African American colored negro's Hispanics etc! lol you people amaze me!! you don't even know what this intelligent man is telling you!! smh!! we all love him but don't understand him!! smdh!!

At 2:54 from what I could understand, I think he meant to say that the race problem in America is unfixable. Now a days, even though the majority of America is not prejudice and all people have equal rights, there is still excess police brutality toward black people in America. Does this prove Malcolm right when he says that "it is impossible" to fix the race issue?

THE HON.ELIJAH MUHAMMAD STARTED IT ALL !!!! AND DON'T GIVE ME THAT TEENAGE GIRLS BULLSHIT …. ELIJAH MUHAMMAD CAN IS THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH GOD IN PERSON ….MASTER FARD MUHAMMAD ALMIGHTY GOD WHO IS NOT WHITE

you are the greatest. don't worry about the stupid people in this world you will save and God will put you in haven. see you in haven my brother and muhamad ali too. see you guys in haven. i love you !!

The masonic Jews have always had their agents start rifle clubs and such before chaos. They're evil shits those masonic/jews. hhaahaha The masons roamed the south with monies and guns starting "gun clubs" 15 years before the civil war was even a matter. hahahhaha They did the same before the 1776 fighting and after. They always have their profit vehicle in place to do their evil and push countries to war and strife through programs they run on their tv and movies. They want a two class system….them getting all opportunity and the other 99% getting just enough to keep enough people busy and hooked up with materialism that is used like a needle these days. hahahhha

The funniest thing about Malcolm X was his trip to Mecca and conversion to Islam. He left one racist society for another Saudia Arabia to this day has a caste system and many Arab countries still have slavery. Before any of you without the status of X take your trek to Mecca do some research on the treatment of Blacks there.

An great example of a calm, intelectual muslim, whome is a great example for us muslims and all people. May God (Almighty Allah) bless him and us all. Allah guides whome he will,wonderful man, wonderful heart. SubhanAllah.

Malcolm X — “The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.” [Speech in Los Angeles on June 3, 1962 upon learning of a plane crash. He also said on numerous occasions, “The white man is the devil.”]

50 years later and nothings changed a white christian man shoots up a church he's not a christian terrorist he's not a christian extremist he's the shooter it happened at the end of ww2 american went after asian nations japan Korea Vietnam then it was Arab nations its just institutionalized racism

wouldnt it be interesting if after the government realised they underestimated people of couour and the religion of islam that they would decide to find ways to never let events like malcom x waking up the public or true islam (countering drugs/adulter/alcohol things that were created to control society) would never happen again, even orchestrating/setting up islam in the eyes of the public to be filled with terrorists by funding them or framing them for the 9/11 attacks tooetc… hmm

Malcolm X was a fanatic who promoted hatred and violence. People were very disillusioned with him. Malcolm X hated white people, that's why he changed his name when he joined the Nation of Islam in prison. Malcolm X was controversial with some of his ideas, but many blacks agreed with his black power movement. When Martin Luther King Jr. was leading the Civil Rights movement with non-violent means there were blacks that agreed with Malcolm X because they thought King was much to slow in bringing changes for the better quicker for the blacks. When Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam he is reported to have rethought his racist feeling toward whites. Although he had little formal education he was a quicker learner with an equally quick mind. He gave as good as he got in the racial conflicts of his lifetime. He's a racist and I'll never support Malcolm X.

Blacks and whites are not equal. No two human beings are equal. Some are bestowed upon with greater intelligence then the others. Malcolm X was an example of that. He was better then many whites and blacks put together.

yeah we're there long lose brothers …..cause the Asians and African came to American a time ago ……They were breeding with each other …..they made us …a subspeciesWhere here with so called Native American